LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 45, 9 October 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In all probability the concert given in the Methodist schoolroom last evening will be repeated for the benefit oi one of the patriotic or relief funds.

At the Dawson Falls Mountain House, which is now open for the season excellent accommodation is provided, and visitors are sure of receiving the best attention at the hands oi the manager, Mr J. P. Murphy. Just now the roads are in perfect order, the scenery superb, and some good snow climbing can be* indulged in. / As showing the excellent condition of the track to the Stratford Mountain House Mr Williams, the caretaker, reports that yesterday a motor bicycle got to the House without difficulty. Three young men, recent arrivals from England, who were at the House the other day, state that the scenery round the House is the best they have yet seen in New Zealand.

Speaking further upon the canteen question in the House last night, the Hon. .las. Allen explained that the commanders of the transports did not wish to have anything to do with the canteens, but had been approached by Messrs Levin and Co., and had consented without taking legal responsibility.

The exports of New Zealand dairy produce during the week ended October 6th were as under, according to- tonight's Gazette-.—Butter, £7423; cheese, £327; frozen lamb, £14,061; frozen mutton, £18,751; frozen beef, £2268; gold, £10,183; grain and pulse, £131; hides and skins, £16,051;. kauri scum, £748; flax and tow, £8566; tallow, £0302; timer, £6364; wool, £24,798.

That popular fixture, the annual juvenile and adult fancy dress ball, under the auspices of the Stratford Volunteer Fire Brigade, is to be held at the Town Hall on Thursday, October 29th. A special effort is being made to make the function more than usually attractive. New dances are being brought out, and it is hoped that liberal support will be tendered by the townspeople.

At the meeting of the Baptist Union (states the Press Association) the bal-ance-sheet of the general fund showed the receipts to be £1630, and the expenditure £1718; foreign mission section, income £2952, expenditure £3612. Promises are made to liquidate both the amounts. Misses Rico (Napier), and Hall (Auckland) have accepted for the Indian Mission. The Rev. A. Y. North was appointed financial secretary for the Dominion. The receipt of an anonymous donation of £IOO to the general fund. .was. .acknowledged. Rev. A. T. Brainsley was regretfully struck off the ministerial roll*. The offer of Mr Montague Lascelles to support, a native preacher in Bengal was accepted,

A Greymouth Press Association telegram tliis afternoon says that the G.s. Hinemou, with a diver aboard, left port this morning for the scon* of the Kairaki wreck. Weather report.—The indications are for:— Freshening westerly winds. The weather will probably prove very boisterous with rain probable. Barometer falling.—Bates, Wellington. The output of copper from Mount Lyell for the half year is estimated at .'3820 tons, as against 3391 tons during the previous six months, stajps a Melbourne cablegram. Judgment by default was given in the following cases at the Court this morning:—James and Co. v. J. Carder and Co.. £l(3 Cs; D. J. Malone v. George Bond. £3 ss, costs 10s; D. J. Malone, v. T. Carson, £2 5s 6d, costs 10s. The following fines were inflicted at the Court this morning in cases of breaches of by-laws: A.. Curran, riding motor cycle on footpath, 10s, costs 7s; W. Norton, riding bicycle on footpath, 10s, costs 7s; J. Archer, riding bicycle on footpath, ss, costs 7s; James Hume, riding bicycle on footpath, ss, costs 7s.

A lecture will be given Ml the St. Andrew's Hall by Mrs Nailer, the represtntative of the well-known Mukti Mission of Pasidia, Rambalai. India. Mrs Nalder is a Canadian lady who has travelled for eight yaers \ in the United States and elsewhere, setting forth the claims anl coeds* of missions. She is- a gifted and accomplished speaker, and comes to Stratford accredited by listiagmshed leaders of the Church in Canada and New Zealand. The Remaiai Mission, whose cause she eloquently pleads, was founded by a converted Hindoo lady who visited and was educated in America and returned to take the message of the gospel to her own people. Tlie story of the mission reads like a romance, and is one of the most interesting in the history of missions.